Progressive enlightenment
Subtitle: the origins of the gaslight industry, 1780-1820
By: Leslie Tomory
Series: Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology; Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780262016759
Subjects: Gas-lighting; History; Gas light fixtures industry; James Watt and Company (Birmingham, England); Industrial revolution; Distillation; Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.